CHURCH ACCUSES STUDIO OF INFRINGING ITS LOGO

The million-member Church of God, based in Cleveland TN, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit again Sony Pictures, IFC Films, Mandalay Pictures, and Comcast for using a “mirror version” of its logo in the movie Salvation Boulevard, which opened in four theaters last weekend. Although the film depicts an amoral fundamentalist preacher, played by Pierce […]

CHINA BLOCKS NEWS OF NOBEL PRIZE AWARDED TO DISSIDENT

China has imposed a total news blackout on the decision of the Nobel committee to award this year’s Peace Prize to imprisoned pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo. Western news reports said that state-run television made virtually no mention of the award except in isolated cases in which it quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying that […]